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I'm still not seeing the route to that existential risk, not yet anyway.

Far more imminent is the very real risk of unbounded greed and power that wields those AIs, in full swing as we watch: unchecked global warming, pollution, poverty, authoritarianism, plummeting biodiversity, and more.

The corporations are like out of control AIs themselves, that will do anything to make their paperclips.

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> The corporations are like out of control AIs themselves, that will do anything to make their paperclips.

Ideas manipulate humans like pets.

Ideas have a life of their own and the evolutionary context within which they live is human culture which they have instigated and change, but also in grey matter, which itself is the product of DNA which is really just information in physical form.

It’s information across the stack. Or perhaps the way to think about it is as a dimension, much like time, that cuts perpendicularly through the stack.

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> we now have superintelligence

Wait what?

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There’s a magic box that can literally build you anything you want that you can control from your phone while playing bedtime songs for your kid
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you must have very little imagination
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Anything I want? Like a car? Or a football stadium?

Your prompt skills up to snuff? I crack myself up.

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Once robots mature, yes. People will literally prompt buildings into existance.

I think that's more than 10yrs from now but if coding AGI or close enough to it becomes real robotics will also accelerate.

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Well you still need land and a bunch of permits, access to materials , trucks, equipment etc. But yeah I guess big construction companies will start to automate in the next decades. It's more interesting to me to build an entire subarb/city in a few months instead of yeras to deal with the rising housing costs. Looks like camp deflation was right but we'll see...
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